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A quotation from Phyllis Wheatley

In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784) African-American poet, manumitted (1773) enslaved person [also "Phillis" and/or "Wheatly"]
Letter (1774-02-11) to Samson Occom

More about this quote: wist.info/wheatley-phyllis/837…

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Congregationalist minster, writes on the abuses of the pre-Reformation church. Torture, etc., was directed not just at theological reformers but also at “sympathizing hearts” who pleaded for the weak who were abused under feudalism.

I have been surprised to see such themes in the writings of so many martyrs of reformation. Happens today?

How can you exercise a sympathizing heart?

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